December 06, 1934

Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Susan Salser; Harriet Clarke

Detroit, Michigan, United States

A pattern leaflet for a quilted pillow.

From The Home Service Bureau Of
The Detroit News
Quilted Silk Boudoir Pillow
Quilting Pattern for Pillow

By Edith B. Crumb.

This is one of those little accessories that appear so luxurious and yet are so inexpensive to make. They are in good taste the year around and make such nice last minute Christmas gifts. Just allow a few hours for making one, plus a piece of cheesecloth 12 inches square, two pieces of soft taffeta or satin 12 1/2 inches square or a piece of changeable taffeta. This extra half inch allows for seaming the two pieces together.

Transfer the design shown on this leaflet to the cheesecloth. You need not be particular about how heavy you have the lines for this material will not show.

Three Layers Together.
Between one layer of silk or satin and the cheesecloth lay a layer of thick cotton wadding, keeping the traced side of the cheesecloth on the outside.

Baste the silk over this and in basting take great care must be taken to keep the cheesecloth and the silk in exact positions. That is, the center of silk should be exactly over the center of the cheesecloth. By using a slender needle and fine thread the holes made by the close rows of basting will not show when the bastings are removed. These rows should be no more than two inches apart so that there will be no slipping of materials.

Now take silk twist in a plain or contrasting shade and outline the design in running stitches. The work is done from the cheesecloth side. The stitches must be small, even and must extend through to silk side. If you wish you may use mercerized thread in the same color as the silk or a fine silk thread.

Diamond Background.
When all the pattern is stitched then do the cross-hatching or diamond quilting. This you can mark off with a rulet and blunt needle, sewing along the crease, or you may mark it with pencil on the cheesecloth.

Remove the bastings, seam the top and bottom of pillow together on three sides. Baste and quilt three sides of the line dividing the ruffle from the body of the pillow. Insert the pillow, quilt the closing and overband the open edge of ruffle.

The ruffle is nothing more than an extension of the pillow itself as shown in the small sketch at the top.

If you want the pillow itself nine inches square, then the ruffle will be one and one-half inches wide.

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